Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-13
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1s, 1887
who shall be Speaker?

who shall be Speaker?
The San Francisco Bulletin thus dis
closes thought which bears all the
resemblances incident to its paternity
It is not altogether certain that Car
Isle will be elected Speaker OF the
next House. On the contrary, the
chances for the election OF a coalition
Speaker appear to be growing. There
has vet been no classification OF the.
next House. There were in the last
House thirty-five Protectionist Dem
ocrats, including Mr.. Randall. Of
these six were from the South. 1t
NAV be iassumed that this variety Of
Democrats in the next House Will be
equally strong. A coalition between
them, or even a few Of them, with the
Republicans can elect Speaker. 1t
was like coalition in two Congresses
in succession which refused to allow
the Tariff bills prepared by Repre-
sentative Morrison to be taken from
the table or debated. If only six Pro-
tectionist, Democrats can be found
willingIto< act with the Republicans, a
Democratic Protectionist--perhaps Mr..
Randall himself, or a Republican
can be chosen Speaker of the F'iftieth
House of Representatives. If the Six
Labor or National Representatives act
with the Republicans in this matter,
which one would suppose they ought,
a Republican speaker can De elected,
with the assistance Of two Protection
list Democrats. This would seem to
be the only logical course that can be
pursued. Mr.. Carlisle and the fresl-
dent, according to common rumor,
have put their heads together on the
tariff question. The Federal officials
appeared in force in the Allentown,
Pa, State Convention and adopted
platform upon which Mr.. Randall can
not stand, if he is not prepared to take
back great deal of his economic
teaching at the dictation OF the Ad-
ministration. Furthermore there is a
rumor that Carlisle if reelected VIII
appoint Sunset Cox, a rabld Free
trader, Chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means. All this looks very
much like war ON Randall and the
Democratic Protectionists. Ii the lat
ter do not ally themselves with the
Republicans it is only question OF
time when they will be kicked out OF
the Democratic camp altogether. II
they have acted twice with the Repub-
icans on this question, it is not seen
why they cannot now take the further
step indicated, especially as political
ruin stares them in the face if they do
not.
That the wish was father to the
thought in penning that article can
not be doubted. 1t is not the first
screed of the same tenor which has
re Gently appeared in that paper. But
the writer will never live to see the
fruition Of his hopes. On the con-
trary it is altogether" and abso-
lutely certain that MIR. Carlisle Will
be the Speaker of the Fiftieth Con-
grcss. He is a Freetrader. That is
true and so is it that Mr.. Randall IS
a Protectionist. But they are both
cd Democrats and honorable, ex-
cellent men. Mr.. Carlisle has been
Speaker, and he has approved him
sell to be man of the most exalted in
tcgrity and of the most scrupulously
nice sense of honor. He will be fair and
i'm partial to a hairs breadth in all his
rulings and appointments. When it
com es to voting for Speaker, the great
Pennsylvania will be one OF the first
to vote for the Kentuckian. Randall is
rs likely as not to nominate Carlisle.
Every Democrat in the House will
vote for him. The Morrison tariff bill
was decidedly another sort OF Il
proposition.
Then the common rumor" that the
President and Mr.. Carlisle-or to fol-
low the anti-climax rhetoric of the
BuHetin-Mr. Carlisle and the Presi-
dent have "put their heads together
on the tariff, is most uncommonly alb
surd. But the Bulletin is all at sea in
every view it expresses upon the whole
question. The President is not known
to have developed his tariff leaning
very positively. He stands squarely,
80 far as any one excepting himself
can know, on the platform of his party
On which he was elected. Mr.. Ran
dali is understood to have written the
tariff plank in that document. Ii
therefore, the President has put his
head together with any one on the
tariff. it is with his whole party-ex
cepting few men here and there IL
either extreme wing-and to hold t.
the policy OF the present, founded OF
the tradition of the past, which calls 10
q tariff so graduated that while Il
for the sustenance OF the
administered on basis
of strict economy, it will afford, incl
protection to American in
dustries. Then if the Protectionists
are to be kicked out of the party to
augment the too much attenuated
ranks Of Republicanism, in order to
be consistent, we shall have to treat